Study of 13,867 AI Disclosure Statements Finds Policies Vague and Practices Misaligned
danish037 · x · 2026-08-25
A paper accepted to EMNLP 2026 Findings, Expectations and Practices around AI Disclosure in CS Research, examines AI-use disclosure in CS research:
- Policies: Top CS venues widely require AI disclosure, but policies remain highly under-specified, with many barely changed since 2023.
- Researcher expectations (N=109 survey): Disclosures are deemed most necessary for research-design tasks (proposing hypotheses, generating synthetic data) and when human involvement is low; least necessary for writing and reporting.
- Practice: Analyzing 13,867 disclosure statements from EMNLP 2025 and ICLR 2026 reveals a large disconnect—writing assistance, considered least necessary to disclose, is the most frequently disclosed.
- Surprise finding: One disclosure statement was copied verbatim in 95 distinct ICLR 2026 papers; shared authors or a common university don't explain it.
The paper closes with recommendations to align disclosure policies and practices with expectations.
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